Emerging Technologies And Sla – Vance Stevens

Emerging Technologies And Sla – Vance Stevens

• 1. Emerging Technologies and SLA – Vance Stevens CALL and SLA: Research, Applications, and Beyond TESOL 2008 New York City April 4, 2008
• 2. Ten aspects of paradigm shift Pedagogy : Didactic --> constructivist and conversational Modeling : Do as I say --> AND as I do Sharing : Copyrighted --> creative commons Trepidation : Will they find out? --> ok to say I don’t know Literacy : Print literacy --> multiliteracies Heuristics : Client server -->peer to peer Transfer : Informal technology is F.U.N. --> applied to professional practice Directionality : Push --> pull Ownership : Proprietary --> open source Classification : Taxonomies --> folksonomies Here, I first suggested multiple aspects of paradigm shift required http://www.homestead.com/prosites-vstevens/files/efi/papers/2007alexandria/web20arabia.htm
• 3. Paradigm Shift Many aspects: 2 especially relevant ones Construction of Knowledge Algorithmic vs connectivist Search and retrieval Folksonomies vs taxonomies
• 4. Stephen Downes at WiAOC 2007 Teaching is Modeling Demonstrating Learning is Practice Reflection Personal Learning the Web 2.0 Way . Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/Downes/personal-learning-the-web-20-way Audio Part 1: http://streamarchives.net/node/84 Audio Part 2: http://streamarchives.net/node/83
• 5. Construction of Knowledge per Downes at WiAOC 2007 Expert systems Shrink wrapped Algorithmic / Cartesian Information disseminated Connectionist Model of learning appropriate to ed tech Total Knowledge = that which exists in network Ineffable
• 6. Connectivism Siemens Proponent of the theory of connectivism The “pipe” is more important than its content Siemens, G. (2005). Connectivism: Learning as network-creation. Retrieved July 3, 2007 from: http://www.learningcircuits.org/2005/nov2005/seimens.htm . Essential elements RSS Folksonomies Tagging Aggregation
• 7. Classification: Taxonomies  Folksonomies
• 8. Connectivism at TESOL 2000 Vancouver – Webheads appeared live at Invited Presenters’ Session 2002 CALL-IS Academic Session broadcast live 2003 Baltimore – Case study of CoP with remote participants; Webheads at Electronic Village Internet Fairs 2004 Long Beach – PCI on CoPs with voice and webcams; classic Internet Fair
• 9. TESOL 2005 San Antonio CALL-IS Academic Session on Future Visions of CALL with Deborah Healey, Karen Price, and Jim Duber. website for the event at: http://www.homestead.com/prosites-vstevens/files/efi/papers/tesol/2005/call-is.htm . The session was webcast.and the recording is available at: http:// home.learningtimes.net/learningtimes?go =774660 . 2006 Seattle - Colloquium entitled: "CALL IS Electronic Village Online Communities“ http://colloquium07.wikispaces.com
• 10. Meanwhile, other conferences WiAOC 2005, 2007 http://wiaoc.org demonstrate, model Proceeds 2006, 2008 http://tesl-ej.org reflect and practice K-12 Online 2006, 2007 http://k12onlineconference.org/ George Siemens 2 conferences Future of Learning, Connectivism IATEFL – Manchester, Exeter Educon2.0 http://educon20.wikispaces.com/
• 11. Communities Webheads http://webheads.info Wordbridges http://worldbridges.net EdTechTalk http://www.edtechtalk.com Teachers Teaching Teachers Writingmatrix http://writingmatrix.wikispaces.com
• 12. Tools VoiceThread Ustream Slideshare Authorstream Gabcast Twitter WiZiQ Skype Chinswing Yakpack I added some of these tools here during session and promised to upload this presentation to http://www.slideshare.net/vances You can find it there (here?)
• 13. Don’t forget … Today’s handout soon to be at http:// www.slideshare.net/vances Vance Stevens, TESOL 2008 New York City